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What a great loss for us. How can we go on!
The Rhino is one of my fave villains in the comics, the battles between him and Spidey are always so fun to watch. He deserves a far better onscreen adaptation than what he was given. I wouldn't mind Paul Giamatti returning either, as long as he's in a cool-looking costume and not that horned junkheap he was wearing in TASM2.
Giamatti is a good actor. Most villains in hated villain roles are usually good actors that got bad scripts and direction. Jared Leto as the Joker is another example. Such promise and potential totally wasted.
I really don't know what people even expected of a live-action Rhino. How else are you going to do it? It's like...mech suit, guy who's mutated into part Rhino, or guy in a Rhino costume. About the three ways you can adapt it. Dumb criminal guy in a mech is about the most palatable for a movie.
It's fine, he's only there as a joke anyway, which is what he virtually is in the books.
Don't use him at all. He's a stupid character. Should stay in the comics.
Nah, I'd like to see him get a proper adaptation.
Every version of him is just a dummy in a Rhino suit.
Why not? They've got Electro & Sandman.
I really don't know what people even expected of a live-action Rhino. How else are you going to do it? It's like...mech suit, guy who's mutated into part Rhino, or guy in a Rhino costume. About the three ways you can adapt it. Dumb criminal guy in a mech is about the most palatable for a movie.
It's fine, he's only there as a joke anyway, which is what he virtually is in the books.
Also, I think Paul Giamatti is a tremendous actor. I think had they actually taken the time to develop his character and do things right, he could've been a tremendous Rhino, but everything about that character from his dialogue, his suit, the execution of his scenes was wrong and bad. He's also barely even in the movie.
I'm not keen at all on Leto but I see your point. Jamie Foxx's Electro is another example, a genuinely great actor wasted on a nothing role. I'm glad he's getting a second chance.
"Develop" his character, Vile? What's to develop? This isn't Ock or Goblin or Sandman or anyone with any pathos. He's always been a dumb meat-head crook out for power & money and that's it.